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- 1801-1848. US painter, founder of the Hudson
- River school of landscape artists. Cole wrote
- An Essay on American Scenery in 1835. Apart
- from panoramic views such as The Oxbow 1836
- (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), he
- painted a dramatic historical series, The
- Course of Empire 1836 (New York Historical
- Society), influenced by the European artists
- Claude, Turner, and John Martin.
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